![]() It is an uplifting story of human endurance in the face of adversity. Yet despite their differences, and unlikely as it might be, they manage over the years not only to live together but to find compassion and even respect for each other. The Lambs get by and even prosper, the Pickles decay. The Lambs believe in family, the Pickles are at each other’s throats. The Lambs are industrious and practical the Pickles carefree, careless wastrels. The Pickles are grasshoppers the Lambs are ants. The two families couldn’t be more opposite. The series covers approximately 20 years. Cloudstreet, Tim Winton’s award-winning novel and the six episode miniseries developed from it, is the story of two working class Australian families forced by circumstances to live together in a large dilapidated house in the Perth of the middle of the 20th century. ![]()
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